I am far from a specialist in linguistical matters, so I can not really judge about Rog and the suitebility of the name in the later tongues. But as far as I have followed the discussion I will give my oppions about what was said:
To loss the charachter, only because we feel not hapy with the name would be a shame. Clearly we already reduced the role he plays be taking out the death of so many Balrogs. But to take the brave and partily successful counteratack out is something quite diffrent. And to skip only the leader and let the house of the Hammer fight with out him would also not fit since all other houses have named leaders.
Aiwendil has found that the name has a conection to power, but that he was naot able to find in the more up to date etymolgies anything to replace Rog.
So I am obliged to follow Aiwendils argument: We have nothing other than fan-fic to replace the name. The change might have been planed already by JRR Tolkien or not, but however that is, we can't find any way to work it into the text. So we must live with Rog as it stands or loss the charachter or the name. Since I am strongly against both later courses I vote for "Rog".
Respectfully
Findegil
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